Bucks behind Tut's dig...George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
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Bucks behind Tut's dig...George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon


Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon [right] at the opening of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922.

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
June 26th, 1866 to April 5th, 1923

Somebody has to pay for the goodies.

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert [Wikipedia]




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